Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Announces Soon-To-Be-Released Documentary About Crypto Exchange Giant

A new documentary about crypto exchange Coinbase and the digital assets industry will be released on popular video streaming platforms on Friday. Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong says that over the last three years, the company has been working with 10-time Emmy award-winning director Greg Kohs for the new film entitled COIN. “We gave Greg and his team unprecedented access inside the company, showing the crazy ups and downs of building a tech startup all the way to us becoming  a public company. He shows it all – the good,…

Crypto Derivatives Exchange PowerTrade Launches RFQs for Institutional Options Trading

“Our goal with RFQ is to drive the adoption of the crypto options markets by supporting smaller institutional traders with no minimum order sizes,” said Bernd Sischka, head of institutional sales at PowerTrade, in an interview with CoinDesk. “We are tackling key problems in the crypto derivatives industry that are impeding rapid adoption of these products amongst the traditional finance clients.” Source

Decentralized Exchange Token GMX Surges After Binance, FTX Listings

GMX jumped to as high as $60 from around $40, data on crypto price tracker CoinGecko shows, the highest since January, when the price hit $62. The token has since pared some of the gains, changing hands at $48 at press time. Trading volume soared, reaching $150 million in the last 24 hours, almost 20 times more than the previous day, CoinGecko data shows. Source BinanceDecentralizedExchangeFTXGMXListingsSurgesToken CryptoX Portal

Decentralized Exchange Token GMX Surges Amid Binance, FTX Listings

GMX jumped to as high as $60 from around $40, data on crypto price tracker CoinGecko shows, the highest since January, when the price hit $62. The token has since pared some of its gains, changing hands at $48 at press time. Trading volume exploded, reaching $150 million in the last 24 hours, almost 20 times larger than the previous day, CoinGecko data shows. Source

Crypto Exchange OKX’s Website Blocked in Russia; Reason Undisclosed

According to Artem Kozlyuk, founder of Roskomsvoboda, says even the owners of blacklisted websites usually don’t know why they have been blacklisted, so only by suing Roskomnadzor they can find out the reason. Website hosting services, which are obliged to block banned websites, also only know about the fact of blacklisting: the only information publicly shared is the number of a decision and the article of law, Kozlyuk told CoinDesk. Original Source blockedCryptoExchangeOKXsReasonRussiaUndisclosedWebsite CryptoX Portal

Nasdaq needs clear regulations to launch crypto exchange, says VP

Nasdaq, the American stock exchange, has no immediate plans of launching a crypto exchange until there’s better regulatory clarity from policymakers, said Tal Cohen, the company’s executive vice president. In an interview with Bloomberg, Cohen said that the retail side of the crypto market is fairly saturated and there are enough crypto exchanges catering to the needs of retail investors. He added that his firm would continue its focus on crypto custody services that were launched on Sept. 20. Cohen also shed some light on other crypto-related services that the exchange…

Coinbase CEO announces documentary on cryptocurrency and exchange

Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong announced in a series of tweets on Oct 4 that a crypto centric documentary capturing his journey of building a tech start-up from the ground up will be available this Friday on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Youtube, and other streaming platforms. The documentary — “Coin: A Founder’s Story” — intends to pull back the curtain and show people what it’s really like to build a tech company from the ground up and encourage others who want to do the same. According to the CEO, documentary…

With Crypto Governance in CFTC Crosshairs, SushiSwap Exchange Mulls Legal Shakeup

The robust participation in Sushi DAO votes is, however, a stronger claim to decentralization than Ooki has ever seen, Nansen data shows. Over 1,800 individual wallets have voted in Sushi DAO in the past six months, compared to a mere nine in Ooki over the same period. That said, Sushi DAO’s clout pools around token heavyweights; crypto hedge fund Arca accounted for 29% of a July vote on collecting arbitrage profits, per Nansen. Source

Ether exchange netflow highlights behavioral pattern of ETH whales

The exchange netflow of Ether (ETH) over the past couple of years highlights a behavioral pattern among Ether whales that market analysts believe is done to pump the price of the second-largest cryptocurrency. The “exchange netflow” is an indicator that measures the net amount of crypto entering or exiting wallets of all centralized exchanges. The metric’s value is simply calculated by taking the difference between the exchange inflows and the exchange outflows. Data shared by one of the pseudonymous traders of crypto analytic firm Cryptoquant indicates that ETH whales have consistently sent…

Swissquote Launches Crypto Exchange SQX

Swissquote announced the launch of its much-anticipated cryptocurrency exchange, which has been branded as SQX. Take Advantage of the Biggest Financial Event in London. This year we have expanded to new verticals in Online Trading, Fintech, Digital Assets, Blockchain, and Payments. The launch came after confirmation from a Swissquote executive late last year about the plans of starting a crypto exchange. However, the company missed the initial deadline for launching the crypto trading platform by June 2022. SQX is a centralized crypto trading venue and, according to the official press…